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[Essex Johnson]

(01-10-2021, 05:16 PM)Whatever Wrote: It can make a huge difference or very little depending on the draft class and how the picks fall.  If there are 5 elite prospects in the draft class and you move from 5 to 8, you will probably get a significantly worse player.  If the top 8 are graded closely, then you won't.  You compound this effect when you're drafting based on need and not using bpa.  These weren't in the top 10, but examples involving the Bengals including missing out on Ragnow and winding up with Price, missing DeCastro and getting Zeitler, and missing on Stephen Jackson for Chris Perry.

Again hard to support moving 3 spots in 1st round especially in top 10, you end up with a major drop in class in the NFL draft..pretty much opinion  based.  Sure you have isolated in your thread but vs thousands of drafts picks through the years.    I just don;t buy your analysis of limited elite prospects in the NFL draft...  it is hard to again quantify "elite" in College transferring over to the NFL and if you look at most drafts there area multiple positions players that are graded at the high level plus NFL draft history is littered with elite busts too. These are the discussions that happen in the War Rooms,  Need vs. BPA.. risk vs. reward..etc//not all work out either way.  I would say more teams end up trading up for Need and more teams tend to trade back for BPA but again opinion based